Word: valet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Protestarer quoque contra vanitatem horum Yankeorum in comparando suam Universitatem cum nostra, sed non valet tempus, et tuum spatium est preciosum. Ergo dicam nullum plus, sed subscribo meipsum. Tuum obedientem Servum...
Pretzel, his German valet ; an interesting cuss, with a penchant for legerdemain, W. R. Heart...
...committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made a fool of herself, and that is all there is to it. All the camels that she has put down without a grimace have made her struggles and final revulsion from even as considerable a gnat...
...that he has considerable ability, but he is so very soft, and so utterly lacks strength of character, that he cannot help making himself and his 'movement' ridiculous. It is said that he applied to Carte the other day to supply him gratis with a private secretary and a valet, and that his request was politely refused...
...About your play" - but at this point the valet announced the presence in the parlor of some maidens who were just dying to see Oscar, and so, with many thanks for Oscar's kindness in talking to such a "mean, and commonplace thing," he took his leave...